Previews

City of Heroes First Update Exclusive Screens

Cryptic Studios and NCSoft unveil some of the surprises in store for the first major update to their hit MMOG.

Spiffy:

More to do, cooler missions, more places to go, new enemies

Iffy:

New content mostly aimed at higher levels

Fans of the massively multiplayer superhero hit City of Heroes should power up their powerarmor and tighten up their tights. The first major update to the game, featuring new maps, new missions, and entire new supervillain groups, will be rolling out shortly.

Check out our E3 Preview for the full feature list and some juicy details we got from the show floor. Then, feast your eyes on the new images of the upcoming villains that were just released:

The developers are hoping (but not promising!) that the new content will be ready for testing on their new public staging server toward the end of next week. Expect more details in the next couple of days!